Acts 5:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Then Peter and the apostles replied, We must obey God rather than men.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

Common English Bible

²⁹ Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than humans!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ But Peter and the Apostles responded by saying: "It is necessary to obey God, more so than men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.

Acts 5:29 Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

2 Samuel 24:4

But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

2 Kings 16:16

Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Jeremiah 26:12

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

Daniel 6:13

Then they answered before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no heed to you, O king, or the interdict you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Acts 4:19

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;

1 Samuel 15:24

And Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.